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Didarchtik

The aim of ‘Didarchtik’ is to get a better adult education experience in archaeological open air museums and to understand the mechanisms and dynamics behind it. This project is a chance to share best practices and implement some good activities to our programmes. We will try benchmarking our own achievements and raising our standards.
Archaeological open air museums are no school, university or old fashioned museum. We build bridges in many ways. Adult education is taking place, but we need to understand the mechanisms and techniques behind it to be more successful. Adults are not such a homogeneous group as children can be. We bridge generations and we bridge between science and the public.
We want to investigate better how to link present day themes with the past to clarify how relevant the past is, for example by the example of crafts. Interactive connections with our adult public are established in order to mediate information and knowledge, partly through crafts, partly through live interpretations and experimental archaeology. Interactivity could maybe as well be the connection between our present way of working and including augmented reality and other modern media. These methods could also help training our own staff.
Our museums have changed in the past decades, and so did our public. We need to answer their demand by learning form each other’s approach and involving specialist colleagues.
Behind Didarchtik stands EXARC, an international association with about 68 members in 20 countries. The Didarchtik group further has a folkhögskola, a national network on archaeological experiments and education and 5 archaeological open air museums.

Didarchtik

The aim of ‘Didarchtik’ is to get a better adult education experience in archaeological open air museums and to understand the mechanisms and dynamics behind it. This project is a chance to share best practices and implement some good activities to our programmes. We will try benchmarking our own achievements and raising our standards.
Archaeological open air museums are no school, university or old fashioned museum. We build bridges in many ways. Adult education is taking place, but we need to understand the mechanisms and techniques behind it to be more successful. Adults are not such a homogeneous group as children can be. We bridge generations and we bridge between science and the public.
We want to investigate better how to link present day themes with the past to clarify how relevant the past is, for example by the example of crafts. Interactive connections with our adult public are established in order to mediate information and knowledge, partly through crafts, partly through live interpretations and experimental archaeology. Interactivity could maybe as well be the connection between our present way of working and including augmented reality and other modern media. These methods could also help training our own staff.
Our museums have changed in the past decades, and so did our public. We need to answer their demand by learning form each other’s approach and involving specialist colleagues.
Behind Didarchtik stands EXARC, an international association with about 68 members in 20 countries. The Didarchtik group further has a folkhögskola, a national network on archaeological experiments and education and 5 archaeological open air museums.

audio/video files about archaeological open-air museums

Understanding how to make and add audio/video files on line meant to prepare the museum visit for follow-up. They are for example about our own activities (demonstrations, guided tours, how-to make or build things et cetera).

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A working system for visitor survey collection and analysis

Preparing a working system for visitor survey collection and analysis which takes little time and effort and has ‘on the fly’ results, per partner and comparing all partners together, automated as far as possible.

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The Didarchtik Project website

The Didarchtik website offers a description of all partners and workshops we have had as well as a blog with news about the 2-year project.
Through that website and also through our main website www.exarc.net we offer several items developed thanks to Didarchtik:
# a marketplace for ancient technology,
# manuals for archaeological open-air museums
# Videos of the venues, archaeological open-air museums.
# republished articles on crafts
We tried out more but unsuccessful we removed these

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Motivation manual

The aim of this product is to motivate people and institutions that work with adult education in Archaeological Open Air Museums to start a LLP project. It shares methods, ideas, difficulties and solutions within European colleagues who want to repeat this successful experience. It has been drawn up for the present and future promoters of the project.
It was written by Parco Archeologico didattico del Livelet with contributions of other partners.

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Evaluation

After each meeting the participants filled out an evaluation form about the meeting. The VAEE collected all these forms and wrote an evaluation report based on the information given in these forms. The information of these evaluations was used to adjust processes during the project, if necessary. After a year we had a midway evaluation during which the process and outcomes of the project so far were discussed. During the last meeting we had an end-evaluation to discuss the impact of the project.

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Key terms of adult education in Archeological Open Air Museums and related institutions - Vocabulary

The vocabulary is a list of currently approx. 1000 key terms and phrases in six languages. It helps adult educators in archeological open air museums acquiring or enlarging their foreign-language vocabulary and enhances this way the quality and value in adult communication and teaching.

Key terms of adult education in Archeological Open Air Museums and related institutions - Vocabulary

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Handbook

A working document with background information of the meetings during the mobilities (programms, summaries, lectures) and contact information for the specific themes. Within the hndbook is a chapter about Qualitiy standards of Live Interpretation (by Bachritterburg Kanzach, Germany).

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A continuation of Didarchtik as a network on adult education

A continuation of Didarchtik as a network on adult education in archaeological open air museums and archaeological presentation in general; a network in which our (semi) professionals and volunteers are able to move and work internationally.

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English

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Adult learners, Teachers, Trainers

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Forum/Blog/Social Networking group

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To be ordered to r.p.paardekooper@exarc.net

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Network

Through the Didarchtik project we have created a network with people from different places in Europe working in the same field as us. Thanks to the mobilities we have got valuable personal contacts. We have got the possibility to learn more about archaeology, about the work people do within education at archaeological open air museums, experimental archaeology and craft.
We have got the opportunity to contribute to knowledge and understanding of "Folkbildning".

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Didarchtik Bulletin

A special edition of the VAEE journal (BAEE) dedicated to the outcomes of the Didarchtik project. All VAEE-travellers have contributed to this journal by writing about the contents of the meetings, the museums visited, useful hands-on activities and delicious recipes from the countries we visited.

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"From Stone Age to Europe"

This was an opportunity for the visitors of Parco Archeologico didattico del Livelet to enjoy the presentation "Dall'età della pietra all'Europa", focused on the explanation of the project Didarchtik and the partners visited during the mobilities. It took place during the special event "European Heritage Days 2011" - promoted by the Mibac- on 24-09-2011. In order to disseminate the activity, Livelet produced leaflets and a press release.

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Weaving of cultures

This event was dedicated to the presentation of Didarchtik to the public at Livelet. Our visitors were able to watch the presentation “Il Livelet va in Europa”, which portrayed the different parks and associations of the Grundtvig project. It happened during during the special event "weaving of Cultures" organized for the XIV Settimana della Cultura - promoted by the Mibac- at Parco Archeologico didattico del Livelet on 21-04-2012. The event was disseminated with leaflets and a press release.

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